Two years ago, Wendy Hasnip, 47, experienced a brain injury that left her speechless for two weeks. When she finally recovered, she found herself talking with what seemed to be a French accent: "I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the first ten minutes laughing," Hasnip said at the time. "While I have nothing against the French." 

Hasnip suffered from foreign accent syndrome , a rare condition in which people find themselves speaking their own language Like someone from a foreign country. The condition usually occurs in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke a sudden loss of consciousness, sensation, or movement caused by a blocked or broken blood vessel in the brain. 

The condition was first identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman whose head was injured during an attack by the German military. The woman recovered but was left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villagers who avoided her after that. 

Researchers have discovered that the combined effect of the damage to several parts of the brain makes victims lengthen certain syllables, mispronounce sounds, and change,the normal pitch of their voice. Those changes in speech add up to what sounds like a foreign accent. 

Another researcher, a phonetician ,says victims of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent. Their strangely changed speech only resembles the foreign: accent with which it has a few sounds in common. 

When an English woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scottish accent. 

However, Annie's Scottish coworkers said she didn't sound at all like a Scot. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. how old was she?
2. what happened for 2 weeks?
3. when was the first such case known?
4. who was it?
5. how did she speak after?
6. did Hasnip have the same problem?
7. did she call anyone?
8. who?
9. who else had the problem?
10. what accent did she have?
11. did others feel that she had it?
12. what needs to happen to get the problem?
13. any other reasons?
14. is the accent real?
15. who says it is not?
16. is this problem rare?
17. did the people like the norwegian woman after?
18. who was she injured by?
19. what had happened to Wendy to get it?
20. how do the victims use syllables?
Answer: 1. 47
2. she was speechless
3. during the Second World War
4. a Norwegian woman
5. with a German-sounding accent
6. she found herself talking with what seemed to be a French accent
7. yes
8. a friend
9. an English woman named Annie
10. a Scottish accent
11. no
12. damage to several parts of the brain
13. a stroke
14. no
15. a phonetician
16. yes
17. no
18. the German military
19. a brain injury
20. they lengthened them

James was a nice old man who lived by himself. Every day he would walk down the road by his house and say hello to everyone. It was fun saying hello to everyone but he felt lonely sometimes. He wanted a pet to take care of. One day as he was walking down the road a little brown and spotted puppy came up to him and wanted James to pet him. James reached down and petted the puppy and smiled. James hoped to see the puppy again. Many days later James went for a walk again. He thought to himself, "I guess I won't ever see the brown puppy again. I hoped to see him again." A nice young lady said to James, "Would you like a puppy?" James said, "I would like a puppy that was like the one I petted before." The lady smiled. She was holding the little brown and spotted puppy. She told James that she found the little puppy in the woods. She said that the little puppy did not have a family. James said happily, "I would love to give the puppy a home!" So James grabbed the little brown and spotted puppy and took him home. James and the little brown puppy became great friends. James named him Spotty. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is James?
2. Does he live alone?
3. How often does he goes out?
4. What does he meet one time?
5. And what color is it?
6. When did he see it again?
7. Who had it?
8. Where was it before?
9. What did James do?
10. Why?
11. What did he call his dog?
Answer: 1. A nice old man
2. Yes
3. Every day
4. A puppy
5. brown
6. Many days later
7. A young lady
8. in the woods
9. Took the puppy home.
10. Because he felt lonely sometimes
11. Spotty

CHAPTER XIX 

I 

IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely controlling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people. 

II 

Bea and Miles Bjornstam were married in June, a month after "The Girl from Kankakee." Miles had turned respectable. He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson Elder's planing-mill; he was to be seen upon the streets endeavoring to be neighborly with suspicious men whom he had taunted for years. 

Carol was the patroness and manager of the wedding. Juanita Haydock mocked, "You're a chump to let a good hired girl like Bea go. Besides! How do you know it's a good thing, her marrying a sassy bum like this awful Red Swede person? Get wise! Chase the man off with a mop, and hold onto your Svenska while the holding's good. Huh? Me go to their Scandahoofian wedding? Not a chance!" 

The other matrons echoed Juanita. Carol was dismayed by the casualness of their cruelty, but she persisted. Miles had exclaimed to her, "Jack Elder says maybe he'll come to the wedding! Gee, it would be nice to have Bea meet the Boss as a reg'lar married lady. Some day I'll be so well off that Bea can play with Mrs. Elder--and you! Watch us!"  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was married in June?
2. Who was married a month before?
3. What did Miles give up?
4. Anything else?
5. And?
6. What did he do instead?
7. Where?
8. Who was the patroness of the wedding?
9. Who did Haydock call a sassy bum?
10. Did Haydock like him?
11. What did she recommend Carol do to him?
12. Anything else?
13. Is Haydock planning to attend the wedding?
14. Did the other matrons agree with Juanita?
15. How many years was Carol in exile?
16. From what?
17. What was recorded as important by the Dauntless?
18. What event was not chronicled?
19. Did Jack Elder say he might come to the wedding?
20. Did Elder approve of Bea's wedding?
Answer:
1. Bea and Miles Bjornstam
2. "The Girl from Kankakee"
3. criticisms of state and society
4. roving as horse-trader
5. wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps
6. gone to work as engineer
7. Jackson Elder's planing-mill
8. Carol
9. Red Swede
10. no
11. chase him off with a mop
12. hold onto her Svenska
13. no
14. yes
15. three
16. herself
17. Carol's experiences
18. Carol's slow admission of longing to find her own people
19. yes
20. yes